Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1887-10-01
4 FRIEND on ANARCHISTS.


That old political mountebank Ben
Butler, in an interview with a Globe.
Democrat reporter, feigns sympathy
for the condemned Chicago anarchists,
and bases his plea for loniency toward
them on the ground that they being
igntrunt Of our country and under the
influence of mulcd wrongs, aggra.
waited in their mMd, 10y misrcproson.
tation and mlsapprcbeusiou OF the
character Of our institutions, dashed
themselves into fury and threw q
bomb by which some men were killed, "
This, Butler thinks, was not so holm
Gus as to justify their condemnation
TO death, He compares them to the
bomb thrOwsrs in the war of the re-
belhon, whom he says were men of
brains, fully conscious Of the enormity
of thoir crime against the Govern
,nent. These bomb throwers, Butler
reminds us, were forgiven, and the
inference he leaves to be drawn from
his remarks IS, Why should not the
anarchists be forgiven also? He says
further that the howl for tho blood Of
the seven poor Sretches who We're
parties to the throwing Of a bomb. in
opposition TO principles they did not
understand, should be silenced. But
Ter, the old demagogue, processes to
view with alarm what he terms "the
thirst for blood, and protests that
"an appetite Of thus character is not to
be encouraged in this great country"
IS opportuRe here to reproduce
the incendiary utteranees Of the arch
anarchist Herr Most, at meeting in
New York on the 18th. He said;
''Friends and anarchists, is it un-
lawful to have free speech in this
country? What are these mon guilty
OFF Are they thieves or murderers?
tGries Of No, NOT They fought
against the numbering police and rob
Ging capitalists. Seven policemen
were killed and they want seven Of
our brothers lives, a life for a life.
You can not allow that hanging to
take place. Arm yourselves and for
every drop Of blood that is shed from
our friends let it cost a human life.
am not alone an anarchist, but also
revolutionist. The capitalist shall be
the first to suffer. No one shall es.
cape his just dues The twelve jurors,
Judges and detective spies wal not
sleep very soundly at present, Let
them beware. wild yells and cheers
from. the crowd,] The time is ap-
preaching when we Will be forced to
use firearms. It must come, SO be
prepared Bedlam eheers warn
them not to take the lives Of our mar
tyrsin Chicago. / demand that they
be set free. Let there be social rev.
olution."
Ths contrast between Butler's ex.
pressed sentiments and the rawlings Of
OF the red mouthed Most is in reality
not very great, and Buffers mawkishI
talk is the more dangerous because IT
is apt to beget in the minds Of the un-
thinking and ignorant class 8 sympa-
thy for criminals, already too preva-
lent in this country.
In giving voice to such sentiments
Butler has sinister and double pur-
pose. First, be has been urged TO take
charge Of the contemplated appeal ofI
ths anarchist cases to the Supreme
Court OF the United States, and in the
event of a successful appeal he would
gain both new notoriety and pelf, and
he is now looking for loophoIe
whereby the condemned anarchists
may escape. Again, Butler, through
his eharlatanry, has lost the respect Of
the honest and intelligent class ID this
country, from whom he can expect
nothing, and such speeious talk as be
as indulging in at present in intended
to catch the rifraff Of the labor ele-
ment.
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